I think we need a system that allows for us to pursue economic activities with minimal outside control and direction. Some is necessary, and I don’t really want to get into where proper lines would be.

More is gained by doing than forcing, going back to the “well doing.”

So take food systems, as you say. It’s not just more or less government regulation. That’s not reform. Reform is changing the economics of our whole food system, a la Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food: an Eater’s Manifesto say, and Marion Nestle’s Food Politics. Which ties into natural sciences of course, and requires more than “praying away hurricanes” as my governor has been doing, to shamelessly, stupidly pander to the miseducated electorate that two generations of attacking the public schools has created.

But if we ever did somehow get a mutually supportive core of thinking (homeschool, charter, ps, red, blue, every world view) families engaged in education reform at THAT level, we would change the world. Governments, corporations, demoninations and unions would change or die in response.

There’s a camera, you have thirty seconds.

It takes a certain ability to communicate to succeed in that, but largely I think the Democrats are far more effective at it.

(For example, I might start thinking this is nonpartisan corporate controlled loss of individual rights, rather than red versus blue politics, and that we’ll all being sold out and need to wake up and tame the CEO overlords before it’s too late. Sperbowl education, seriously??)

But then, that is a large reason behind my distrust of increased regulations. They always favor large corporations. That is part of why I distrust government involvement/takeovers. They always favor large corporations.

I just want to be able to raise my little goats and chickens and maybe a couple of pigs, sell a little of my surplus. I have no problem with the minimal regulations at the moment which essentially make sure a facility is sanitary. But there is a lot being pushed by Big Ag that will kill any possibility of that. And it isn’t really the Republicans that are their friends. (& I don’t have any of that stuff…well, a few chickens but not even enough to supply our own eggs. Just a dream!)